News
Elucidating cuttlefish camouflage
Computational image analysis of behaving cuttlefish reveals principles of control and development of a biological invisibility cloak [more]
Twelfth IMPRS student graduates
On October 12, Andreas Stehl successfully defended his thesis, titled "The Role of Synaptopodin in Neuroinflammation and Retinoic Acid-Mediated Synaptic Plasticity in the Mouse Hippocampus" at the Goethe University (Frankfurt in... [more]
Ninth call for applications IMPRS for Neural Circuits now open
Students call apply to the program till December 1, 2018. We also offer a fast track option. [more]
Master of the tree – novel form of dendritic inhibition discovered
A unique feature that sets neurons apart from all other cells are their beautiful, highly elaborate dendritic trees. These structures have evolved to receive the vast majority of information entering a neuron, which is integrated... [more]
Raunak Basu (Ito Lab) has received funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers will support Raunak for a period of 24 months as of March 2019, during which he expects to generate more insight into a long standing question in neuroscience. [more]
Laura Bernáez Timón (Tchumatchenko Lab) has been awarded a Fellowship from the Joachim Herz Foundation
Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Life Science offers funding for two years. [more]
Korbinian Brodmann returns to Frankfurt and MPI-BR
On September 14, the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research opened an exhibition about life and work of the neuroanatomist Korbinian Brodmann. [more]
Blood vessels instruct brain development
Neurovascular communication in the brain [more]
How we decide on where to go
Neuroscientists discover a mechanism for brain-wide communication when selecting a route towards a destination [more]
Julijana Gjorgjieva has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Research Group Leader Julijana Gjorgjieva at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research has received this prestigious grant for the NeuroDevo project. She is one of the 19 laureates currently working at the Max Planck Society.... [more]
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Upcoming Lectures and Events
02 November 2018
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Special Lecture by Rava da Silveira (Département de Physique, École Normale de Supérieure, Île de France, Paris)Title: "Coding with Correlated Neurons" [more] |
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13 November 2018
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Neuroscience Lecture by David Foster (Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience, Berkeley Psychology, US)Title t.b.a. [more] |
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16 November 2018
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Special Lecture by Hiroki Ueda (The University of Tokyo RIKEN BDR, Kobe, Japan)Title: "Organism-level systems biology by next-generation genetics and whole-organ cell pr... [more] |
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26 November 2018
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Minerva Lecture by Maria Barna (Departments of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Stanford University, USA)Title: "Ribosome heterogeneity in translating the genetic code: from genes to organisms" [more] |
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23 January 2019
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Neuroscience Lecture by Attila Losonczy (Mortimer Zuckerman Mind Brain and Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA)Title t.b.a. [more] |
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